{"id":871,"date":"2013-04-15T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/?p=871"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:17:33","slug":"buy-to-let-booming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/buy-to-let-booming.html","title":{"rendered":"Buy to Let Booming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a leading landlord mortgage broker, the first quarter of<br \/>\n2013 has seen a surge in the number of landlords seeking new finance<br \/>\ndeals in order to buy new properties. This increase reflects how<br \/>\nconfident experienced buy to let landlords are that the current<br \/>\nmarket conditions are unlikely to change any time soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remortgaging deals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Refinance mortgages only represented 43% of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.create_mortgage_loan.html#watch-demo-anchor\">landlord finance<\/a> deals at<br \/>\nthe end of 2012. This figure has now risen to 69%, which is a very<br \/>\nlarge piece of the pie. Other figures show that refinancing deals on<br \/>\nHouses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) are now becoming increasingly<br \/>\ncommon, as landlords seek to cash in on the demand for rental<br \/>\naccommodation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Will this trend continue?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The signs are certainly looking good. The country is still in the<br \/>\ngrip of a tough economic climate and the demand for rental<br \/>\naccommodation is far outstripping supply in many areas, particularly<br \/>\nLondon and the South East. With this in mind, it is hardly surprising<br \/>\nthat landlords are hoping to cash in by trying to expand their<br \/>\nproperty portfolios. The more properties you have, the more you can<br \/>\nspread the risk of rent arrears and long void periods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mortgages and lenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At one stage it was quite difficult to find lenders willing to offer<br \/>\nfinance deals on buy to let properties, but with the increasing<br \/>\ndemand for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/video.creating_property.html#watch-demo-anchor\">rental properties<\/a>, more and more lenders are seeing the<br \/>\nlight. There are fewer mortgage products on offer now, but this has<br \/>\nmore to do with the fact that lenders are streamlining their products<br \/>\nrather than making it more difficult to borrow money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a leading landlord mortgage broker, the first quarter of 2013 has seen a surge in the number of landlords seeking new finance deals in order to buy new properties. This increase reflects how confident experienced buy to let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/buy-to-let-booming.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.propertyportfoliosoftware.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}